Martin Antonenko
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One-Sided Slaughter on the Tshornaja ...
On August 16, 1855, the last Russian attempt to break open the siege of the fortress of Sebastopol and to give the Crimean war a favorable turn for it, fails bloody!
A hastily thrown together Russian army, 58,000 strong, led by General Prince Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Gortshakow ...
... manages to get within a few kilometers of Sebastpol until it reaches the Tshornaja River (= "Black River ") ...
... where she meet a combined force of 37,000 French, Sardinians and Ottomans, under the joint command of Marshal Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier ...
... General Alfonso La Marmora...
...and Osman Nuri Pascha...:
The Russians are numerically vastly superior, but poorly armed!
The soldiers are completely equipped with obsolete muzzle loading muskets M 1841 ...
... which hardly shoot better than the Napoleonic rifles, while the French and Sardinians all have new Minié rifles ...
... state-of-the-art guns with rifled barrels that shoot faster, farther and more accurately than the Russian muskets.
Prince Gorchakov also has no cavalry or artillery at his disposal - he has only been assigned infantrymen, the situation in the Russian Empire is so desperate.
Despite these serious disadvantages, the Russians tried desperately bravely and with a felled bayonet to storm a stone bridge over the Tshornja and take the ridges behind it, from which one could see the besieged Sebastpol - but hardly any Russian soldier manages to close the bridge cross!
They are shot down like rabbits by the soldiers of the allies who are deployed on the other bank with their long-range rifles, without the slightest chance of being able to defend themselves against the deadly fire or to shoot back!
And the few who, as if by a miracle, make it over the bridge are gutted after desperate resistance ...!
On the ridge, which is actually the target of the Russians, the general staff of the allies has taken position ...:
After General Gortshakow has lost over 8,000 soldiers dead and and almost doubled as many by wounding without having done anything at all, he lets the hopeless undertaking break off and withdraws.
About 800 men fell on the side of the allies - about the same number were wounded.
Sebastopol is lost!
On August 16, 1855, the last Russian attempt to break open the siege of the fortress of Sebastopol and to give the Crimean war a favorable turn for it, fails bloody!
A hastily thrown together Russian army, 58,000 strong, led by General Prince Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Gortshakow ...
... manages to get within a few kilometers of Sebastpol until it reaches the Tshornaja River (= "Black River ") ...
... where she meet a combined force of 37,000 French, Sardinians and Ottomans, under the joint command of Marshal Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier ...
... General Alfonso La Marmora...
...and Osman Nuri Pascha...:
The Russians are numerically vastly superior, but poorly armed!
The soldiers are completely equipped with obsolete muzzle loading muskets M 1841 ...
... which hardly shoot better than the Napoleonic rifles, while the French and Sardinians all have new Minié rifles ...
... state-of-the-art guns with rifled barrels that shoot faster, farther and more accurately than the Russian muskets.
Prince Gorchakov also has no cavalry or artillery at his disposal - he has only been assigned infantrymen, the situation in the Russian Empire is so desperate.
Despite these serious disadvantages, the Russians tried desperately bravely and with a felled bayonet to storm a stone bridge over the Tshornja and take the ridges behind it, from which one could see the besieged Sebastpol - but hardly any Russian soldier manages to close the bridge cross!
They are shot down like rabbits by the soldiers of the allies who are deployed on the other bank with their long-range rifles, without the slightest chance of being able to defend themselves against the deadly fire or to shoot back!
And the few who, as if by a miracle, make it over the bridge are gutted after desperate resistance ...!
On the ridge, which is actually the target of the Russians, the general staff of the allies has taken position ...:
After General Gortshakow has lost over 8,000 soldiers dead and and almost doubled as many by wounding without having done anything at all, he lets the hopeless undertaking break off and withdraws.
About 800 men fell on the side of the allies - about the same number were wounded.
Sebastopol is lost!
